The Gardening Adventures of Firsty McStub

unfortunately we moved from that fantastic farm house in scotland to a much smaller rented house in Sheffield.  So the climate might be marginably more favourable, but space is severely limited.  I spent the winter trying not to beat myself up over too many things such as home made meals every night and recycling as we were getting used to the new house, had lots of things on (getting married for one!) and well sometimes you just need to give yourself a break.  So I did.  Actually I wasn’t sure I’d do any gardening this year as I was so uninspired by the thought but recently as spring has started, I’ve become more interested.

So, the back garden.  It gets light all day so that’s good, but it’s small and losing last years crops due to moving is making me want to do it all in containers.  All I managed to salvage from last year was the blueberry plant, I did want my dh to bring the strawberry plants but he didn’t.  Anyway, that’s all a long story and in the past.  So this year I want to concentrate on stuff I want that is expensive to buy like peppers and won’t spend too much time and worry on cheap stuff like onions and carrots.  I can’t find all my seeds from last year which is stressing me slightly, will look more tomorrow, but I’ve ordered some from The Real Seed Catalogue.  I’ve ordered some peppers (nice early ones!), tomatoes, peas, mangetout (never tried that before), cucumbers and some sweetcorn.  I’m sure some will have to go in the ground (thinking of sweetcorn at least) but we’ll see.  Also want to get some courgette as we enjoyed that last year.  Might try and get some early potato seeds too to have in a bag that I can earth up.

Today I cut back some of the garden, it seems to have been neglected for ages, and it’s made a difference at least to the size of the garden.  Also planted some cherry tom seeds I found on a shelf, although they are out of date so not sure if we’ll get any results.  If we do though I’d like to put them in a hanging basket.

Hopefully lots to update with soon, took some pics today too so shall put them on once they are on the puter.